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Trade of the Day: Starbucks SBUX 1x2 put spread
On a relatively nice day for the stock, a trader places a bearish bet on the coffee giant that could pay off huge, while only risking 2 cents.
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Pros risk a small amount, use IV to their advantage, and stand to benefit in a major way if the trade works. The trade below is clearly a pro trade that could generate almost $800k in max profits. Take a look at how this trade is made after the (coffee) break.
This trade was spotted using the amazing software from the folks at LivevolPro.com
The Trade:Buy 2k SBUX Oct $33 Put at $2.76 (30.9 IV)Sell 4k SBUX Oct $29 Put at $1.37 (33.3 IV)Net: 2c debitThis will likely expire around the time SBUX reports earnings, based on prior earnings. Clearly, we don't know exactly when earnings will be just yet. Both strikes trade against minimal open interest.
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Notice the October skew does offer one of the more attractive opportunities to play this trade with a longer term time horizon.
As the stock price has been consolidating, the IV30 has been dropping.
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Finally, for a little something different I have added a look at the pivot points for SBUX as of today's close. Notice how on the monthly pivots $33 is the approximate pivot point and $29 is approximately support 3. These are key technical levels that pro traders have an eye on.
Now with all that said, I'm not into the new Trenta coffee sizing. Perhaps I will take a shot at the downside too ;)
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Macro / ThematicXLF Financial Select Sector SPDR – 120,000 June 18 calls were bought to open for $0.31. Looks like a cheap bet that the XLF bounce off its 50 DMA hands and runs over 9% by expiration to profit.EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx – 50,000 May 49 calls were bought for $1.02. The trade appears to be opening. The contract is 4.7 percent out-of-the-money and has 72 days until expiration. Also notable in today's trading was a total of 40,000 April 50 / 52 call spreads bought for ~$0.21.ConsumerCEDC Central European Distribution Corp – 3000 March 12.5 calls were bought for $1.05. Bounce play. Has a gap to fill @ $13.53.TSN Tyson Foods, Inc. – 1400 April 17 puts were sold at $0.10. Stock looks to be breaking out or making a move to previous highs. Trader collects the premium at a strong support strike even if TSN pulls back and fills the gap @ 17.6. 200 DMA is at 16.9 and curling up.CRI Carter's, Inc. – 2000 March 30 puts were sold at $0.95. Looks like a pin play to 30. Stock gaped down .75 today but was bought aggressively and closed the day up .48 or 1.65%.BC Brunswick Corporation – 1000 June 21 puts were sold at $1.00 to open. Strong up trend. Trader looking to collect premium with the synthetic buywrite and willing to buy the stock around its rising 50 DMA.
TechTSM Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. Ltd. – April 12.5 calls were active today following noise that the company might be in a potential partnership with Apple. Over 3700 of the calls traded with 60 percent bought on the offer. Stock also recently found support on its 100 DMA after completing a 5 wave down move. Could be starting wave 3 or 5.CTL CenturyLink, Inc. – 1400 of the April 41 calls were sold at $0.65 to open. Possible buy-write. Stock finally pulled back after a nice run from the mid 30's to the mid 40's and recently found support on its 200 DMA.FinancialsTCB TCF Financial Corporation – 1500 of the March 15 puts were bought for $0.20. The trade appeared to be an opening position. Stock acting poorly. Cheap bet weakness continues over the next 7 trading days.BCS Barclays PLC – 3000 January'13 17.5 puts were sold at $2.65 to open. Trader doesn't lose money until $14.85 on expiration. Huge support at $16. Barclays is still way off its former highs and looks to be basing.Industrials / MaterialsLPX Louisiana-Pacific Corporation – On the back of renewed takeover speculation in the name 1800 of the March 11 calls were bought for today for $0.05. A total of 2239 calls traded today with no puts trading. The stock could have formed a big rounded bottom.UTX United Technologies Corporation - Ahead of the United Technologies Analysts and Portfolio Managers Meeting tomorrow both the March 85 and April 85 calls were active. 6700 and 2200, respectively, traded on the two lines (with 64% and 58%, respectively, being bought on the offer). The stock is also in a strong uptrend and continues to move from the lower left to the upper right of the chart.CX Cemex SAB de CV – 5000 of the April 8 puts were bought for $0.23. The stock has been in a downtrend since the end of last year. This trader is looking for a test of 52 week lows or lower.EnergyLNG Cheniere Energy, Inc. – 10,000 of the April 10 calls were sold at $0.65 while another investor sold 5000 of the March 8 calls at $0.90. Interestingly the March 9 calls traded 6100x with 85 percent of the trades being executed on the offer. Huge volume in here recently. Looks like the 100 DMA held on the first test down but a nasty bar today. Capitulation?KWK Quicksilver Resources Inc – Throughout the day an investor appeared to be building a position in the April 14 /15 bullish risk reversal with a total of 11,700 trading on the day. One block traded at $0.20 1400x. Trader looking for a breakout of a long base.HealthcareWCRX Warner Chilcott Plc – 5000 of the March 24 calls were sold at $0.20 to open. Looks like a pin play.SQNM Sequenom, Inc. – 2500 January'12 7.5 calls were bought for $1.00. Stock coming into strong support. Trader looking for a bounce... maybe even a gap fill! 52 week high is 8.65 and the trade breaks even at 8.50 so basically looking for new highs by expiration.AVNR AVANIR Pharmaceuticals – 5000 January'12 5.0 calls were bought for $0.28. Trader looking for this bounce off the trend line and 200 DMA to run and test the highs.
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Trade of the Day: SanDisk Corporation July $45/60 bear call spreadTrade of the Day: SanDisk Corporation July $45/60 bear call spread
The TradeA trader sold 2,000 July $45 calls at $6.40 and bought 2,000 July $60 calls $1.32 for a credit of $5.08 or $1,016,000.Risk/RewardAs you can see from the graph above, the spread profits from a decrease in the underlying stock at expiration. The bear call spread has limited risk and limited profit potential at expiration. The max risk is $1,984,000, which would occur at an underlying price of $60 or more at expiration. The max profit potential is the credit, which would occur at an underlying price of $45 or less at expiration. The break even underlying price at expiration is $50.08.The line shown is the upper break even price at expiration. The 52-week range for SNKD is a low of $31.82 and a high of $53.60. SNDK traded 39,388 contracts today compared to average volume of 27,749.SanDisk Corporation is engaged in designing, developing and manufacturing data storage solutions in a range of form factors using the flash memory, controller and firmware technologies. The solutions include removable cards, embedded products, universal serial bus drives, digital media players, wafers and components. Today, SanDisk announced the release of the world's largest CompactFlash Card. The 128GB SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash will be available in the first quarter of this year, and costs $1,499.
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Historical Traveler Reviews Hotel Gillow Mexico City
Large, Clean Rooms
We (4 adults) spent 2 nights at the Gillow. We had a two room suite with 2 large beds in each room. The beds and pillows were nice. The price was only 68 dollars per night for 4 people (great deal). The bathroom was large and very updated and clean. I would definitely stay at the Gillow on our next visit to Mexico City. The security was great and the safety deposit box was first class. Nice cafe in the loby. Great location for visit to the Zocola and historical area of the city. We were told that same people that own the Hotel Catedral own this property also. Much preferred this property over the Catedral.
What a bargain!
The staff was friendly and accomodating. It seemed to be centrally located in the Zocalo, an easy walk to the big square or the Museo Belle Artes. Best of all was the price. We got a luxury suite with a king sized bed, a huge jacuzzi tub, separate shower, etc. for the price of a motel room in the U.S. Room service was prompt and efficient. Highly recommended.
Nothing special
The hotel is in a good location and the lobby and shared areas are very nice but the room was a bit gloomy and the bathroom was not wonderfully hygienic with no lid on the toilet and the towel hanging onto the toilet seat. The staff were not very friendly or flexible, they would not let me open my safety deposit box until 8am even though I had a flight to catch.
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Spent 4 nights there in late Feb. A great deal. Location is excellent; 2 blocks from Zocalo. Easy walking distance to 2 Metro Stations and many, inexpensive resturants. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Top of line room about $40/night, including tax, booked by e-mail. Purified water and ice on most floors; fresh caraf placed in room daily by maid.
Certainly would stay there again on next trip to Mexico City.
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I recently stayed at Hotel Gillow and had a pleasant experience there.
We had a room on the top floor that included a small terrace with nice views of the street below and the top of the Municipal Cathedral. This hotel is conveniently located two blocks from the Cathedral and National Palace and four blocks from the Palace of Fine Arts, Latino Tower and la Alameda Central (park). Some floors were in the process of getting new carpet. I would definitely stay here again. Its a bargain for its convenience and the quality of the accommodations.
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we stayed at Hotel Gillow again autumn 2003 after not having been to Mexico for 3 years. it is convenient to the Metro, Centro Historico and the hardware store and vegetarian restaurants we like. this time i didn't notice any cockroaches in our room and our first 4 nites the room had a ceiling fan and a sliding door on the tub/shower altho the switches right inside the entry door were confusing and we didn't have enough light to read in bed. this year we took a bus out of town and returned to M.C. for one last nite. at that time they gave us a room on the top floor with a balcony/patio altho the door was hard to slide. we couldn't get cable tv for some reason. unlike our experience in 2000, this time we had to walk to different floors to replenish our purified water supply. no one would offer an apology or explanation as to why the 2nd and 6th floors didn't have water dispensers. and of course there are never any washcloths in Mexico. i assume Mexicans never wash their ears. we paid around 40$ US for 2 people and expect to stay at the Hotel Gillow the next time we visit Mexico City. taxi drivers don't appear to be too familiar with the place (for one thing, i have never learned how to pronounce "Gillow", with the Spanish "ll" or not!) but it is at the corner of Isabel la Catolica and 5 de Mayo.
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my wife and I stayed there early 2003. Found the staff very friendly and accomodating. Will also keep luggage when going on a side trip.
Restaurant is also good value.
Great Location, inexpensive, clean and comfortable (a steal!)
I picked this hotel out of the blue online and was pleasantly surprised, it is a gem. You can't beat the location, it is within walking distance of the Zocalo, the Palacio de Bellas Artes, and the Plaza Garibaldi. The Metro is nearby so you can go anywhere in the city. Very inexpensive, clean, comfortable, and quaint. I will definitely stay there again when I'm in Mexico City.
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I stayed here 9 nights and it was a very comfortable place to come to after a long day exploring the central corridor of Mexico City. The location is superb, first of all, it is located in the heart of the main historic avenue (Cinco de Mayo), about 5 blocks from the Zocalo (Historic square), the hotel is surrounded by restaurants, cafes, pharmacies (good for shampoo, condoms and soap), the post office (to mail postcards) is 5 blocks away and the metro station can take you to any position in the city for only .20 cents (Allende station). The staff is helpful and delightfully courteous to gringos and there is even a safety box to store valuables (travellers checks, passport, watches, gold, money) which I would recommend using because I had my metro tickets (which were worth only $2) stolen from my room. The rooms are very clean and there is a fan on the ceiling to cool one off during the hot night, the restroom has a lot of cockroaches but it was not a problem considering that it only cost $50 a night to stay here and they were only annoying. A TV gets some American channels and there is even a phone and a small desk to write upon. The lighting is adequate and the hotel has plenty of "purified water" to drink because it is not recommended to drink the pipe water which has diseases. The bad point is that there is a speaker which plays loud music early in the morning and until about 9pm but if you are far enough from it, you can sleep quite easily or stuff some cotton into your ears. I would use this hotel again and would even recommend it to the common traveler, if you are looking for something more luxurious with amenities, you could try something else around the Polanco or Zona Rosa district and pay 4 times as much but this is a bargin.
Great value
You know you are in a foreign country when you enter the reception area -- it is interesting and different. Our twin room was quite spacious with a table and chairs and large, very clean bath. We had large windows opening onto Cinco de Mayo St. No one would call it luxurious but it was certainly very good value at about $ 45 US.
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... different to the way it is during the day. We climbed back out to the street and caught a cab to Bellas Artes. We arrived a little late but bought our tickets for the Ballet Folklorico in the middle of the circle of the large theatre before going straight in and taking our seats. The Ballet Folklorico is a traditional music and dance show. (It isn't really ballet as such at all.) As we arrived, a group of mariachi were playing on stage. Every dance had its ...
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... several hundred of them with some very elaborate artefacts and jewellery available for immediate purchase! We made just one – check with Denise for viewing times.
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... impressive cathedral where all the ornaments, which covers the church from floor to ceiling, are handcarved and covered in gold. We had a nice lunch in a restaurant with an amazing view over the city and headed home. Unfortunately the ride home, which should take about 2 hours, took nearly four because of the terrible traffic in Mexico city. It was Friday night and everyone was either coming back from work or going out for dinner so it was total kaos.We had to send ...
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Felix Pie went 2-3 with a lead-off first-pitch double roped down the RF line, a bases loaded RBI walk on a 3-2 pitch, a grand slam HR hammered over the CF fence, and a hard-hit 4-3 GO, as the AZL Cubs thumped the AZL Royals 18-1 at Fitch Park Field #3 this morning in hot and sunny Mesa.
So do I really think Pie was sent to Fitch Park to "rehab" a "sprained thumb"?
... from what I've heard, he did have a thumb injury, but it wasn't particularly significant, and it certainly wasn't the type of injury that would normally warrant a trip to the hell that is Fitch Park in June.
Reading between the lines, it appears that Pie being sent to Fitch Park was more for disciplinary reasons than it was to rehab an injured thumb, with the so-called "sprained thumb" the excuse needed to justify the DL stint and the Fitch Park rehab assignment.
What the exact nature of Pie's transgression at Iowa was, I don't know. Maybe Mike Wellman can find out. But I have heard whispers that he sulked big-time after being optioned to AAA by the Cubs in May, and that part of the reason behind the Cubs decision to option the Pie man to Iowa in the first place was related to his becoming a bit of a "party animal" in Chicago, staying out until all hours of the night and then showing up at the ballpark not necessarily "ready to play" the next day.
As a further tidbit of bizarro information, Pie had what sounded like an argument with someone from the Cubs brass (I couldn't see exactly who it was, but I could probably guess) who was sitting up in the Fitch Park Tower that overlooks the four fields as Pie was walking to the clubhouse after he left the game in the 6th inning.
I didn't understand the complete nature of the "discussion," but I believe it had something to do with Pie expecting to leave town immediately (like "who is driving me to the airport?"), but being told instead that he would be staying in Arizona for at least one more day.
Pie did not look happy, that's for sure.
As for the rest of the fellows, the AZL Cubs had a really poor performance yesterday (Saturday) versus the AZL Angels in Tempe, especially the hitters (OK, the defense sucked, too), leaving men on base all over the place and failing to advance runners into scoring position. All this in front of Cubs Organizational Hitting Instructor Dave Keller.
Well, Coach Keller (who is making his once-every-six weeks visit to Fitch Park) apparently was none too pleased with yesterday's effort, as he held a closed-door 90 minute meeting at the Fitch Park clubhouse with the hitters this morning at 7:00 AM, followed by an extended BP session that ran until almost game time.
I guess it must have worked, though, because the AZL Cubs slammed out 21 hits (the AZL Royals had only three).
On the pitching front, two AZL Cubs pitchers who were at the Fitch Park Infirmary made their first AZL appearances, and both looked VERY sharp.
RHP Cedric Redmond (torn labrum, but no surgery) threw a 1-2-3 1st inning, striking out two and keeping all three Royals hitters off balance with his fine screwball.
And then Ryan Acosta (injury unknown) threw a masterful 14-pitch (13 strikes) two-inning shutout stint (he was only supposed to throw one inning) where he just toyed with the Royals hitters. Acosta actually looked like a young Greg Maddux out there today, the way he threw strikes and with lots of movement on his fastball. And he worked VERY fast, too.
And please note that there were two mistakes made by the AZL official scorer (as appears in the "official" MiLB box score -- see above).
First of all, the AZL official scorer identified Ryan Acosta as Francisco Acosta (they are two completely different AZL Cubs pitchers), and then the official scorer had "F. Acosta" (who did not pitch today) working three innings, when actually "R. Acosta" (that is, Ryan Acosta) worked two innings, and then Toby Matchulat made his pro debut, working one inning. (The official scorer didn't even list Matchulat!)
See, this is the problem with the AZL official scorers. They don't have a clue. Maybe Oneri Fleita could yell at them, too.
So anyway, RHPs Toby Matchulat (2008 11th round pick out of Wabash Valley CC) and Justin Bristow (2008 5th round pick out of East Carolina) both made their pro debut today, throwing one inning a piece.
Working out of a wind-up, the long and lanky Matchulat walked his first hitter on four pitches as he appeared out of whack (please keep Rich Hill away from the young'uns!), but then once he got into the stretch, his mechanics became much more compact and he struck out two and got the other batter on a ground out FC.
Bristow retired the first two hitters he faced easily on infield grounders, before giving up a walk and an RBI double that resulted in the AZL Royals one and only run of the day.
Julio Pena (who normally would have started the game) worked the final four innings and looked very sharp, allowing no runs on just one hit and a walk, with two Ks.
On offense, Dutch-Aruban 2B Dwayne Kemp (signed out of the MLB European Baseball Academy last year) got his first three "official" pro hits (including two doubles) and first RBI. Also, Nelson Perez (a single, a double, and a triple, plus two RBI), Bryan Jost (a single, two doubles, an RBI, a walk, and three runs scored), Sean Hoorelbeke, and Jose Guevara also had three hits each.
In AZL Cubs roster news, INF (now C-INF) Robinson Chirinos has completed the Cubs six-week catching course at Fitch Park and has been assigned to Daytona, where he will alternate at catcher with Steve Clevenger and Blake Lalli (Mark Reed has been promoted from Daytona to AA Tennessee). .
The AZL Cubs don't play tomorrow, and let me tell you, I can really use the day off!
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Well we knew Pie could hit AAA hitting now we know he can hit AZL pitching. I am rooting for Dwayne Kemp to make it though. More European players in the majors would be cool, help the sport grow. I wonder if he'll have an outside shot for the Netherlands World Baseball Classic team next year.
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if you're over the age of 23-ish and in ARL this time of year...and you're healthy...you f'd up.
NO ONE wants to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to shag flies, run, and take BP that early in the morning greeting the days in the 80s and going home in the 100s.
hope pie "learns" something. aka, hey, there IS something worse than having to ride the bus in the minors. a bus may not be a chartered plane, but its not a dusty field complex in the desert.
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I would LOVE to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to shag flies, run, and take BP. Instead I have to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to sit in a cubicle and suffer from a deficiency of vitamin D.
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I second that.
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Mmmmmmmmm! Love me some ass crack of Dawn. She's hot!
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Concerning the comment about official scorers making mistakes, that's not necessarily the case. The information is called in to milb.com in New York, where it is transcribed by whomever is on duty that day. The guys in New York are juggling several games, so they don't always get the information entered correctly and it has to be fixed later.
After seeing the box score online this afternoon, I emailed Rodney Johnson, who was today's official scorer. (By the way, Rodney also scores Diamondbacks games and has been scoring professional games for years). He was already aware of both mistakes and had notified milb.com that they had not entered the information correctly. So the assumption that the official scorer had screwed up is not accurate. It's not an easy job when it's 110 degrees, you've got bad sight lines and no instant replay. Phil, please don't disparage the guys doing a difficult job. I've been there ... it's not an easy job.
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Pie could sure use something at this point, might as well make him eat some dirt in order to help him get his priorities straight.
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"I couldn't see exactly who it was, but I could probably guess"
So who did you guess it was? tell us?
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So... After many years of hard work you're the starting CF for the Cubs. You have talent, and all the promise in the world.
So your priorities are to party all night????????????
The Cubs must have a monopoly on players with small brains.
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The Cubs must have a monopoly on players with small brains.
No, Farnsworth plays for the Yankees now.
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Heh Heh. Yep, indeed he does.
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Speaking of Pie, he's far away but still remembered in the Chicago dugout--the White Sox dugout, that is. I notice that the Sox hitters, after hitting one of their frequent home runs vs. the Cubs, do that little hopping hip-bump that the Cub outfielders do after a win. Pie started that business, right?
It always reminded me of Santo clicking his heels after wins in '69. The Mets took exception to conduct they considered unsportsmanlike, and they got the last click that season.
Dancing after a win is still bush league almost forty years later.
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Arizona Phil.....we sure appreciate all your reports and insights into what is going on at Fitch.What is your "paying occupation"? I sure hope it's in air conditioned comfort ! Does the Cubs trainer help keep you hydrated with gatoraid? Do you ever take pictures of the action that you can post?
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Whoa, Phil, hold on! I think maybe the heat is getting to you. You're getting a little testy.
I was just challenging your non-factual assertion that AZL scorers are "clueless" with the fact-based statement that many of the errors are made when the results are transcribed in New York. It has nothing to do with where the official scorer sits when he scores the game, how many hours you've spent watching batting practice, etc., etc.
Your reports are great and provide lots of info that you can't get anywhere else. But there's no reason to automatically make a statement that the scorers are clueless based on one error on the MILB website. Do you have any other evidence to back it up? Your readers are relying on you for what actually is happening at Fitch Park. You start to lose credibility when you don't have the facts right, and in this case you didn't report the facts.
Keep on reporting because, as I said, your reports are great. Just show that scorekeeper a little love the next time.
In Pie's absence, ANDRES TORRES and his .958 OPS is playing centerfield for Iowa.
JEFF SAMARDZIJA started yesterday, pitched six innings, gave up one run on four hits, struck out four and won the game, BUT walked 6!!
JASON DUBOIS has 10 home runs in 82 AB's for Iowa.
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given that the 30 year old torres has spent most of his past many years (including the past 3 so far) in AAA he should have it down by now. you should see what trot nixon did in tucson. =p
it is nice to see dubois seemingly has his power stroke back, though...might help him catch on with someone for another year. he was almost out of baseball options if he didn't improve over the 13 homers he had all year last year in AAA in between being injured.
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Maybe somebody should get Felix the manuscript of the upcoming book, The Josh Hamilton Story, and tell him to get back to work.
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Partying aside, I like the idea of Pie being rambunctious and not just trying to be his coaches' pet. That wasn't working. Ariz Phil didn't see who Pie yelled at or hear what he said, but I understand he was shouting these words to Dave Keller, his erstwhile hitting coach: "Shorten THIS!"
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Pie is circulating the Cubs organization drain right now. He's an uncoachable spoiled moron demoted all the way down to the Arizona Summer League.
What's not to like?
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What kind of shoddy sensationalism is going on here??? Felix Pie's name and reputation are being smeared on this blog based on what? Someone whispered something that Pie was maybe at a party all night, and then someone might have heard someone else say something to Pie but he's not sure who said it or what he said? I realize this is just a blog and not some serious attempt at journalism, but have at least a shred of ethics.
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Oh Felix. The first thing you do upon waking up at 1:00 in the afternoon after a late night out is post this?
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I think it's pretty much understood that a lot of this is speculation and AZ Phil seems pretty careful about stating absurd rumors without anything to back them up. The point of his posts is to give the rest of us a look at what goes on in the Cubs organization down there in AZ. If he's giving his opinion on some things, well that's kind of what we're looking for. If we just wanted box scores with no context around anything, we'd go to MiLB.com (and apparently those are wrong anyway).
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Rumor has it that there really is no Arizona Phil, but that the blogs are being written by the altar ego of Ozzie Guillen. Ozzie has spies everywhere who report in to him, and he knocks off a new posting from his hotel room on the road. Strange but true, folks.
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The Pie as as a party boy story was the rage of sports talk radio when he was sent down. Az Phil has been Pie's biggest fan on this site since about as long as I have been posting here which was 05, so I doubt he was trying to "badmouth" him.
"Pie Tastes Bitter" by AZ PHIL being discussed on MLB.COM Forum
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wow...that's one forum you'll never catch me on.
geez...1/2 those people are acting like baseball players dont have a life.
wow...felix pie partys...so does 1/2 of mlb...so does 99.999999% of the minors.
some people can just handle it better than others. some can show up hung over and get the job done (what's up bj upton?).
they're human beings...it happens. this is beyond not surprising, but some people on that board refuse to believe a baseball player is human i guess.
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At age 23, if I were in Chicago and didn't have to get up for work until noon (for a night game), I might sample the night life quite a bit as well.
But...if I had an entire off-season to party, and, if messing up my million-dollar baseball career meant that my next best career option was...ummmm...organ donor, I might have a little self-control during the season. 23 ain't 17. Time to grow up.
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I don't think we are acting at all like baseball players don't have lives. No one said that. The point is that many baseball players can party and play solid baseball. Those who can't cut back on the partying. Each player has to strike his own balance. For some that means more partying, for some less. I think given Felix's rather pathetic performance this season, many of us would have hoped he'd have tried to back off the partying to see if that helped him. From what we've heard, he has chosen not to do so. So I'm all for sending his ass down to the desert.
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Whatever's been said on this blog pales next to some of the ridiculous stuff we read (and hear) every day in the mainstream sports media - calm down and stop making accusations until the rest of the story evolves.
Or do you have something to refute the original statements at this point in time? If not, then put a sock in it and take yourself down from the cross.
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Madden won't announce lineups but Stella is practicing at 3rd and Bryant in LF today. I'd rather see Bryant at 3rd but I guess Stella has been hotter than Coghlan.
/edit. Though I guess they could be practicing this with the idea Stella would come in as a PH then double switch him to 3rd base and Bryant to LF. Hope that's the plan instead
I really like the sound of that idea about expanding the AFL to ten teams. Each org. gets to field more players.
They should do that anyway, regardless of Adv. Instructs.
Dallas Beeler, Corey Black, David Garner, Pierce Johnson, Steve Perakslis, James Pugliese, Duane Underwood Jr, and Rob Zastryzny threw early-morning bullpen side-sessions at Riverview yesterday.
Underwood threw last, and received specific one-on-one instruction from pitching coach Mike Mason.
HAGSAG: There are only five advanced instructs squads left, and presently the only "co-op" team operating is the Angels/Cubs.
The league was originally established as a "parallel" league to the AFL (a sort of "junior AFL"), for players too advanced for traditional ("basic") instructs but who were unable to get placed on AFL rosters due to AFL player-limits.
He is but I would think it'd be better to start out with offense and then bring in Jackson and LaStella once they have a lead. Stella has very good PH #s too.
most likely cost sharing + the league is short on players anyway. not many teams are chipping in on 'advanced instructional.'
I'm glad this is a one game playoff coming up, because McCutchen is one of my favorite MLB players. And as a baseball fan, I rather like the Pirates. I hope we beat them bad, of course. No mixed feelings here. And, I don't want a nail biter. Too old for that shit. The team of moran fans is easy to hate, though, and more suitable for a longer series.
A Jurickson Profar sighting!!!!???
I'd guess Jackson over Coghlan for the defense.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, is Jackson a better defender?
Less stress on the pitching staff?
I recall earlier this season when the Cubs played Bryant in center instead of left due to the weirdness that is the PNC outfield.
AZ Phil, what is the reason the Cubs are co-oping this team? They seem to have plenty of talent that would fill a roster.
RF is actually easier to play than LF in PNC so I'd guess Schwarber is there and that's why he was playing it Friday but yeah I'd say that's hopefully accurate.
Guess for Wednesday's lineup: Fowler (CF), Schwarber (LF), Bryant (3B), Rizzo (1B), Castro (2B), Montero (C), Russell (SS), Arrieta (P), Coughlan (RF)
Dusty already has blue and red wrist bands.
/cmon dude
a day old, but fwiw...
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Reddit is best treated as a form of internet television. It also used to knock RationalWiki over from time to time by sheer force of visitors.[6]
[edit] How Reddit works
Reddit works by having users (called "redditors") submit links to other websites, share stories, and post images, which are then voted up or down by other redditors. Comments on these submissions are also voted up or down. If a comment receives enough downvotes, it will be hidden from view by default. Reddit uses the up/down score of a given user's posts to calculate their "karma." (No one actually pays any attention to this except the user themselves.) A redditor's profile publicly lists all of the comments and posts they have ever made on Reddit.
The site is divided into smaller sections called subreddits, which each cover a particular subject. Anybody can create a subreddit (subject to approval by Reddit's administrators). Reddit admins take a very hands-off approach, wishing to keep their CDA section 230[wp] immunity, and each subreddit selects its own moderators, who in turn (attempt to) police their own community's posts and comments.
[edit] Whence the awfulness?
In many ways, Reddit represents the worst possible result of enormous popularity coupled with an immense and only loosely-connected pile of largely self-governing communities. (Take care not to assume a coherence that really isn't there.)
A sliver of any site's traffic will consist of cranks and malcontents; the jaw-dropping amount of traffic the Reddit receives means this subpopulation numbers in the thousands or even millions. These cranks then either set up or join an existing subreddit that supports their ideas. Unfortunately, the site's structure further encourages the spread of these bad redditors' ideas into any "good" subreddits.
Any redditor who posts a comment that contradicts the prevailing opinion within any of these nastier subreddits often finds all their comments and posts (which are accessible via their public profile) downvoted across all subreddits in retaliation. (The software attempts to counteract this to some extent: if the user downvotes comments on the public profile page itself, these votes are ignored for karma calculation purposes.) This marginalizes sensible redditors, not just on the crank subreddit, but across the "good" subreddits as well, though socks and throwaway accounts cost only a few clicks/keystrokes, so this "problem" is easily manageable.
Cross-pollination between related subreddits also serves to grow and strengthen the various crank communities. Any thread that vaguely touches on crank redditors' hobbyhorses is swiftly hijacked. Subreddit moderators are often too apathetic, incompetent, or afraid of being too aggressive and alienating their own community to take any action, further encouraging crank redditors to continue colonizing other subreddits.[7] This is made worse when moderators across seemingly disparate or only tangentially-related subreddits are sympathetic to these crank ideas, and tolerate them to the detriment of the community. (For example, /r/ronpaul redditors spread into the /r/libertarianism community, which then spread into the /r/politics community, eventually turning Reddit into a particularly noisy fanbase[8] for Ron Paul's failed presidential campaign.)
[edit] Anti-censorship?
Reddit also has a strong culture (although by no means a universal one) present within it of subreddits opposing any form of moderation and believing that upvotes and downvotes should be the sole arbiter of whether content is any good, in the name of free speech — and that, consequently, any form of active moderation beyond that prescribed by Reddit itself is censorship. This extends to such things as prohibiting harrassing content directed at other users, racism, sexism, image macros, rage comics and other such things — the basic argument is that if these things are really odious then they will be downvoted, and if they aren't then that means the subreddit's readers want them there. This rather peculiar form of the just world hypothesis ignores the fact that all evidence available shows that if you have no form of enforced quality bar on an online community then it will quite rapidly become filled with low-effort content and subject quite dramatically to the dickwad theory. A demonstration of this can be seen by the stunning quality of strictly-moderated subreddits such as /r/askscience compared to, well, take your pick.
However this paper-thin veneer of principled free speech breaks down when it comes to anything that might be critical of Reddit or redditors' particular hobbyhorses. Calls are regularly made to close or ban /r/ShitRedditSays, a subreddit that overall does nothing other than link to examples of what it sees as bigotry across Reddit (and enrage MRAs and racists in the process), and for sites that dare to criticize Reddit on the interwebs, a "shit" icon is coded on many subreddits to appear on any link that directs to them. This includes Cracked and the Satanic blog that starts with a "G" and ends with "r," as described below.
[edit] #RedditRevolt
In June 2015, Reddit shut down several breathtakingly odious subreddits which were not just saying hideous things or brigading other subreddits, but operating as bases for harassment off-site.[9]. This included the infamous /r/FatPeopleHate, a subreddit that included over 100,000 subscribers prior to its ban and was, ironically, one of the more censored subreddits on Reddit, as showing sympathy or empathy towards fat people quickly earned the speaker a warning or a ban. Upset FPH readers proclaimed the Reddit admins a pack of censoring Nazis (also either blaming /r/ShitRedditSays or demanding its banning as usual[10]), and many decamped to Reddit for a newer similarly-structured site, Voat,[11][12], which promptly melted under the load.
Much of the hatred, centered on the hashtag #RedditRevolt, surrounds Reddit's interim CEO Ellen Pao, whose sexual discrimination lawsuit against her former employers Kleiner Perkins made waves in Silicon Valley. Thus, the Chinese-American feminist in charge of the site was made into a perfect target by Reddit's "disenfranchised" assholes. In addition to being compared to China's Cold War dictator Mao Zedong with the epithet "Chairman Pao", as well as the usual cries of "Nazi" because a handful of subreddits exclusively formed to harass other people across Reddit got banned, a petition was made calling for her removal as CEO. All of this was pretty blatant harassment, racism, and sexism levied at her, until a popular Reddit staff member was fired in July 2015, leading to #RedditRevolt's revitalization as a form of solidarity with the former employee following a voluntary blackout of several Reddit boards. The petition to have her removed surged in popularity, and comment sections across the Internet seem to think that #RedditRevolt, which has its origins in June, only started in July with response to the firing.[13][14][15] One commentator at a DOTA2 website of all places, even noticed an obvious connection between the people pushing #RedditRevolt and Gamergate, pointing out that a feminist woman banning hateful communities is everything 4chan could have ever wanted in a controversy.[16] Pao ultimately resigned from her position during this shitstorm,[17] despite the fact another member of the executive board who was one of the site's founders was actually responsible for the popular employee's firing.[18]
But the real bombshell comes from former CEO Yishan Wong, who first suggested that Reddit's co-founder Alexis Ohanian had set Ellen Pao up to take the fall for his actions.[19] Bethanye Blount, Reddit's chief engineer, also echoed these sentiments when she quit following Pao's resignation.[20][21] After the new CEO announced an AMA to handle questions concerning how Reddit was changing with Pao's departure, Wong appeared again and revealed that Pao was the only member of Reddit's executive board who was arguing in favor of all of the website's most toxic communities. According to Wong, the board had pressured Pao to "outright ban ALL the hate subreddits in a sweeping purge" but she resisted, knowing it would result in a "shitshow". Now that #RedditRevolt ousted Pao, there's nothing stopping new interim CEO Steve Huffman from going through with this purge; Wong stated that Huffman had previously confided in him that he would have banned such hateful communities ("anything racist, sexist, or homophobic") outright.[22]
What actually happened was that Huffman decided that all of the terrible communities shouldn't be banned entirely and instead be put behind registration walls and within those new walled gardens they had no advertisements whatsoever. He's also fully embodied the libertarian hands-off approach; in response to a question concerning the growth of white supremacist subreddit /r/CoonTown since the new rules were put in place, he responded, "Horrible, actually, but I don't think you can win an argument by simply silencing the opposition."[23] Several more subreddits were banned the following week, such as ones for child pornography but more importantly /r/CoonTown and its various satellite subreddits;[24] however these were not banned because they were racist but because they were damaging to Reddit's reputation.[25]
[edit] The worst of Reddit
[edit] /r/mensrights
One of the top gathering points for MRAs, because they really needed one of those. Notably, /r/mensrights was flagged by the Southern Poverty Law Center in a report about online misogyny.[26]
Essentially full of outdated anti-feminist conspiracy theories, their contest to find the worst woman on the planet, and whining about any joke ever made with men as the punchline, while contributing fuck all to any gender debate. RationalWiki also annoys them.
[edit] /r/theredpill
Similar to /r/MensRights but actually worse, to the point where even /r/MensRights has denounced them as misogynist.[27] While /r/MensRights tries to mask its hatred of women in the language of anti-feminism, the folks on /r/theredpill are far more open about it. They reserve just as much hate for "betas," with quoting and mocking what male posters say in /r/relationships. Described on /r/TrollXChromosomes as "a place where bitter divorcees and young ugly dudes meet up to discuss strategies of making themselves feel better."[28] When you're so toxic that even the bottom 10% of MRAs don't want you, it's a sad day for you.
[edit] /r/jailbait
A subreddit that was, from 2007 to 2011, devoted to images of "clothed" (often naked, but with no genitalia showing) teenage girls, often heavily sexualized and taken from Facebook or Photobucket pages without the subject's knowledge. In October 2011, /r/ShitRedditSays brought attention to the existence of /r/jailbait and the mainstream media got involved; after an exposé by Anderson Cooper of CNN, Reddit shut the subreddit down. A noisy portion of Reddit now despises Cooper for doing his job.[29]
In February 2012, Reddit officially instituted a rule banning sexualized images of minors.
[edit] /r/creepshots
A subreddit devoted to posting images of women taken without their consent. Although "upskirt" shots were later banned, hundreds were posted here. Notably, a high school teacher was arrested and fired after posting images of girls in his class on /r/creepshots. Like /r/jailbait, /r/creepshots was brought to the attention of the mainstream media by /r/ShitRedditSays and was later shut down during the public relations debacle involving Violentacrez (see below) in October 2012.
[edit] /r/atheism
Not as relentlessly awful as some, but a good demonstration of the fact that not believing in a god or gods in no way implies any capacity for joined-up thinking or not being a horrible person.[30] The average user is significantly younger than on other atheism-related sites and is generally fairly new to the whole non-belief thing, so the whole thing is more of a celebration of the new-found ability to blaspheme without feeling guilty. Because of this, a large amount of posts end up being cross-posted to the self-explanatory subreddit /r/cringe.
Early in 2013, there was a little coup d'etat among the moderators at /r/atheism, wherein the founder of the subreddit was forced out.[31] The first assistant moderator that the founder had invited to help with /r/atheism became chief moderator. Afterwards, a lot of new policies were implemented, leading to the wailing and gnashing of teeth among most of the members. The original founder then created a new subreddit called /r/atheismrebooted (which is just like it sounds — a rehash of the best and worst of /r/atheism's original format). Yada, yada, yada. One of the users at /r/atheismrebooted was kind enough to post a timeline of their little soap opera here.
Anyway, it all became so annoying to the Reddit admins that they woke up for once and took /r/atheism off the default subreddit list.[32] However, by the end of 2014, the ruckus had died down and /r/atheism had been (very quietly) restored to the default list.
[edit] /r/conspiracy
Run by a white supremacist moderator who worships Timothy McVeigh, /r/conspiracy is the front page of paranoia on the Internet. Theories discussed there run the gamut from 9/11 to chemtrails to lizard people. /r/conspiracy has a large subscription base but is considered by many to be the laughingstock of the site, with regulars routinely accusing anyone who disrupts their echo chamber of panicking of being a "shill" or an evil impostor working for the government/Jewish overlords/reptilians. Despite being presented as an open forum and "thinking ground" which "respects people of all religions and creeds," we dare you try to question prolific appearances of Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Alex Jones. Lastly, anytime a mass shooting or a terrorist attack or anything horrible where many people die or are injured it is automatically considered a false flag perpetrated by the United States government. No exceptions.
Many /r/conspiracy regulars actually believe that most of Reddit is paid government employees watching them (and yet they still go there). Due to the insanity and hostility of the subreddit, other subreddits such as /r/conspiratard and /r/actualconspiracies have been set up take a slightly more rational approach to conspiracy discussion.
In September of 2014, the subreddit showed how anti-Semitic it really is by posting the documentary Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told in their sidebar (which included a big picture of Hitler's face). The move caused major controversy and was heavily panned by /r/conspiratard and /r/subredditdrama.[33] Despite everything (though it shouldn't be any surprise) the documentary stayed up, and anyone who didn't like it were deemed Zionist Shills.
[edit] Other Subreddits
The extremely large population of Reddit combined with the relative ease with which one can create a subreddit on any topic has led to a number of minor subreddits with small, yet dedicated populations on topics that can be a little... disconcerting, to say the least. These include:
- /r/ClimateSkeptics
- One of the milder ones -- a subreddit devoted to climate change denialism, branding themselves as "seeing past hyperbole, alarmism and environmentalism driven politics." It doesn't particularly help that their sidebar declares that they are "not a science subreddit".
- /r/KotakuInAction
- A bunch of whiny manchildren who take Gamergate way too seriously. The members of this board believe feminism will bring about the end of men everywhere, and that Gamergate is literally class warfare. All this...over videogames. This was spawned from /r/TumblrInAction, which exists to mock and brigade users of Tumblr that meet their criteria, which are often just people from TumblrInAction producing self-serving troll blogs. KotakuInAction itself spun off /r/WikiInAction which is where everone on KotakuInAction goes to complain about Gamergate stuff on Wikipedia and RationalWiki.
- /r/Holocaust
- Created by an ex-mod of /r/conspiracy, a subreddit run by and dedicated to Holocaust denial. In early 2014, the mod list was expanded to include another mod of /r/conspiracy and members from the now banned /r/niggers.
- /r/911Truth
- With a disturbingly large number of subscribers, yes, it's as bad as it sounds. Filled with so-called "professionals," the subreddit's Truthers often contradict their own evidence and fail to understand even elementary school physics.
- /r/GreatApes
- Unfortunately, this subreddit does not feature discussion of chimpanzees or orangutans. Lately, most of their userbase have moved to...
- /r/CoonTown
- See above. Unfortunately, not about a village filled with cute fuzzy procyonid townspeople. On August 5, 2015, /r/CoonTown and several satellite subs were banned as /r/FatPeopleHate was the month before.
- /r/FatPeopleHate
- Exactly what it says on the can: the hating of fat people. As of June 10, 2015, the subreddit was banned by Reddit admins for harassing behavior (now undergoing a diaspora to Reddit clone Voat and 4chan clone 8chan).
- /r/BadFattyNoDonut
- Successor to /r/fatpeoplehate. Different name, same shit and it got banned, too.
- /r/FatLogic
- A sister site to /r/fatpeoplehate which is actually slightly older. The policy of the subreddit prohibits bullying of others users to avoid the same fate as FPH.
- /r/BeatingWomen2
- Originally banned as /r/beatingwomen. It has become more notable after Reddit began to ban controversial subreddits.
- /r/PhilosophyOfRape
- Also exactly what it says on the can (Better described as rape advocates). View only if you place no value on your sanity and faith in humanity. It, among other horrors, thinks that raping a 6 year old is justified.[34]
- /r/SpaceDicks
- Don't even think about it.
- /r/PicsOfDeadKids
- WTF, this is a subreddit.
- /r/SexyAbortions
- Gosh, most of us at RW are pro-choice, but this?
- /r/AntiPOZi
- For fighting "Cultural HIV".[35] Popular among white supremacists, Neo-Nazis, homophobes, and red pillers. This subreddit received Reddit's newest punishment of quarantining, meaning that users must opt into it, users must have a verified email, and the logos are replaced with caution signs.
[edit] Other controversies
[edit] Gullibility
Redditors are known for being particularly gullible. As many redditors are "passive content consumers" who only read the title and then upvote or downvote accordingly, without reading or participating in the comments, many posts with extremely misleading or false titles are upvoted to the front page of Reddit. It is common to see a highly upvoted article on the front page, only for the top upvoted comment in the thread to provide a detailed debunking of the article's claims. Reddit is at least as susceptible to hoaxes about topics like Republicans, marijuana, gun control, Bitcoin, climate change and workers' rights as the Twitterati. Reddit users have a full range of political allegiances, though clumping in odd ways.
In a well-known example, redditors fell for a hoax involving a user named "LucidEnding," who claimed to be about to use Oregon's right-to-death laws to perform assisted suicide. After redditors sent him thousands of comments and well-wishes, some users finally discovered his alleged mode of suicide (IV therapy) is not legal in Oregon. In the first of many incidents, Gawker writer Adrian Chen joked that he was behind the LucidEnding profile.[36]
[edit] Violentacrez
Violentacrez was a Reddit user responsible for creating and moderating many of the NSFW subreddits, including /r/jailbait and later, /r/creepshots. Violentacrez posted hundreds, perhaps thousands of images to Reddit. He also regularly made outlandish comments about his sexual history, most notably claiming in an Ask Me Anything session that he had sex with his stepdaughter. In October 2012, Gawker writer Adrian Chen obtained Violentacrez's real identity, that of 49 year old Michael Brutsch from Arlington, Texas, from a disgruntled former friend who met Brutsch at a Reddit meetup and became disillusioned with his disturbing sexual behavior. Chen contacted Brutsch and informed him that he would be writing an article about Brutsch's online behavior. On October 12, 2012, this article was posted.
War was declared.
[edit] /r/ShitRedditSays
A subreddit devoted to criticizing, making fun of, and drawing attention to the ignorant and otherwise disturbing content that some redditors shower with upvotes. SRS users typically find upvoted comments, post them to SRS, and then make fun of or heavily criticize the users involved. SRS was originally designed as a subreddit to try and educate these users, but when those attempts were met with severe downvoting, the users decided to turn the subreddit into the "circlejerk" it is known for today. Because SRS is supposed to be a safe space for marginalized groups to talk without fear of downvotes, those who violate the circlejerk or attempt to argue their viewpoint find themselves swiftly banned, ostensibly to preserve the "safe space" for people who would get downvoted elsewhere on Reddit.[37] This practice tends to upset other subreddits, which typically have a much more tolerant policy on speech, and are loath to issue bans. Yes, even /r/mensrights has a better speech record than /r/ShitRedditSays.
This results in /r/ShitRedditSays being blamed for all manner of things by all manner of people in Reddit, such as vote brigading, publishing personal information on other users and conducting campaigns of harassment against other redditors. The fact that there is no definitive proof of an SRS-wide conspiracy for anything worse than cynical insults kept strictly within the subreddit itself[38] does not seem to stop them being viewed as a mystical bogeyman or part of an even greater conspiracy encompassing the Reddit Admins (particularly former interim CEO Ellen Pao), who allegedly turn a blind eye.
One such conspiracy that seems to perennially pop up as proof is the doxxing of Youtube comedians Jon "JonTron" Jafari and Stephen "Boogie2988" Williams by someone claiming to be from the SRS IRC chatroom over their support of Gamergate, despite one of them (Williams) having had little to do with Gamergate at the time of the doxxing. However, the main piece of evidence claimed to prove this conspiracy is a screenshot of a now-deleted anonymous post on Pastebin (a service which anyone can post text to) signed with the SRS IRC address at the bottom of the page. No IRC logs, SRS posts, etc., have been found corroborating the allegation that it had been posted by members of SRS, and the style of the doxxing is more consistent with a false flag operation against SRS than a malicious act by SRS users.[39]
[edit] /r/creepyPMs
Another "safe space" for people, largely women, who are creeped upon or harassed via text/SMS or private messages on social media. Reddit's personal messaging system is one of their sources: that is to say, if a photo of yourself (no matter the context) goes to the front page — and you look any bit attractive to the hivemind — expect a veritable flood of sexual advances from a large number of the single 20/30-year-olds that inhabit the site.[40]
[edit] /r/fatpeoplehate
FatPeopleHate, as the name implies, was set up for people who are so completely enveloped with rage that other people are fat that they have to post about it on the Internet, this obviously being a rational activity engaged in by only the most well-adjusted of individuals. Naturally, with Reddit management not caring about any shitty content on their servers unless it somehow causes negative consequences to Reddit itself, it was allowed to live right up until the point that it was determined that it was being used to harrass other people, both on and off Reddit, and that its moderators were not banning users who were engaging in this behaviour.[41] This, naturally, led to a huge conniption fit amongst the Reddit user base who were convinced that, as opposed to this being an expression of one of Reddit's famous few hard and fast rules ("if you're harassing people or brigading other subreddits we will ban the shit out of you"), it was actually a "politically correct" judgment on the content of /r/FatPeopleHate itself. This, clearly, makes no sense, as Reddit left up myriad other subreddits who don't brigade while also being filled with all manner of racism, misogyny and rape advocacy, as well as the non-FPH affiliated /r/FatPeopleStories which has not engaged in any harassing behaviour of note (while, it must be said, also being somewhat lighter on the "hatred" aspect). At the same time, FPH's defenders also tried the old "but SRS brigades too" argument, which as previously noted doesn't work simply because SRS doesn't brigade. SRS however did take credit for the banning on the basis that everyone would blame them anyway and that it was funny.
The end result of this was of FPH users creating new replacement FatPeopleHate subreddits (which were promptly banned), posting obesity-related content to any and all other subreddits (which was promptly deleted) and lastly, when this tantrum did not work, threatening to up sticks and move to Voat, a Reddit clone which promises a completely hands-off approach to hosting content and as such is beloved of racists, misogynists etc. The general consensus is that they are more than welcome to do so and should be encouraged to follow through, or should do when Voat has enough servers to handle the new demand and doesn't do such stupid things as trying to host Holocaust denial material in Germany.
[edit] Actually decent subreddits
Thankfully, the particularly notorious subreddits tend to be in the minority. The nature of how communities and networks form has led to a great number of subreddits, from the helpful to the frivolous. These include:
- /r/scholar
- The Pirate Bay of academia. Their powers to ferret out obscure paywalled papers are stupendous.
- /r/aww
- Probably the nicest subreddit on the site.
- /r/raisedbynarcissists
- A source of support for people who were raised by a parent or parents with abusive personality traits, particularly those associated with cluster B personality disorders.
- /r/nottheonion
- For real world happenings that cross into the realm of Poe.
- /r/whatsthisbug
- A great community to help you identify what's currently making you say "NOPE".
- /r/spaceporn
- For astronomy images (and not, as the title seem to imply, space-related smut). The rest of the SFW Porn Network is cool too.
- /r/askhistorians and related
- Good starting points if you need homework help, and often feature real-life academics. (Plus /r/badhistory features a tonne of amusing instances where people show how little they have understood.)
- /r/skeptic
- Annoyingly blokey and dumb at times, but people actually come to it asking for help dealing with foolishness and get good answers, so it can be a good place to help combat public stupidity.
- r/dataconspiratardshate
- Conspiracy theorists love to make up statistics that they claim proves their worldview. Use this to find more credible info they willfully ignore.
- /r/debunkthis
- When you feel like a visit to the shooting range.
- /r/ExplainLikeImFive
- Complex or confusing phenomena and situations to be explained in layman's terms.
- /r/OutOfTheLoop
- For catching up on trends, memes, and news stories you don't understand or haven't heard of.
- /r/Goats
- The official favourite subreddit of RationalWiki for obvious reasons. And /r/goatpics for the discerning gentlegoat.
And, of course: /r/RationalWiki!
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- http://www.reddit.com
- What is this thing called Reddit?, BBC News
- Reddit is a failed state, The Verge
- Can Reddit Grow Up?, The New York Times
- Reddit or Stormfront?
- Let's play Reddit's Controversial Opinions Bingo! (Or if you want to lose your faith in humanity, enter these terms into the search bar.)
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Put Your Rage Into a Cartoon and Exit Laughing, New York Times
- ↑ William Shatner Voices Dismay At Reddit's Dark Side, Huffington Post
- ↑ erik (hueypriest). "Top Posts of the Year and Best of 2012 Awards", Reddit Blog
- ↑ Reddit CEO Admits 'We're Still In The Red', Business Insider
- ↑ As of May 2013, 71 million unique views, 5487 active subreddits, approaching 5 billion pageviews a month.
- ↑ To be fair, at its peak, Redditors coming to RationalWiki could easily exceed a million visitors. Our poor servers had no chance. http://www.reddit.com/domain/rationalwiki.org
- ↑ Why Reddit sucks: some scientific evidence, Washington Post
- ↑ The "Ron Paul 2012!!!!!11!" brigade was downvoted to virtual invisibility in many instances afterwards.
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/
- ↑ In a stroke of genius, SRS immediately claimed full responsibility on the basis that they were going to be blamed for it anyway.
- ↑ http://voat.co/
- ↑ These voat.co infidels also take goats name in vain!
- ↑ Chitra Ramaswamy, "Is Reddit's Ellen Pao just too radical for Silicon Valley's unequal terrain?", The Guardian
- ↑ Derrick Clifton, "The problem with the backlash against Reddit's CEO that nobody's talking about", The Daily Dot
- ↑ Megan Condis, "#RedditRevolt is harassment dressed up as free speech", Al Jazeera America
- ↑ Gay Farang, "RedditRevolt: Just Another Offshoot of GamerGate", Mid or Techies
- ↑ Mike Isaac, "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit's Chief", The New York Times
- ↑ Alexis "kn0thing" Ohanian, "An old team at reddit", /r/announcements, Reddit
- ↑ Sam Biddle, "Was Ellen Pao Set Up? Former Reddit CEO Unleashes on Founders", Gawker
- ↑ Noah Kulwin, "Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job", Re/code
- ↑ Gabrielle Bluestone, "Top Reddit Engineer Quits Saying Ousted CEO Ellen Pao Was Set Up to Fail", Gawker
- ↑ T.C. Sottek, "Reddit's secrets are being leaked by the company's former CEO", The Verge
- ↑ Adi Robertson, "Reddit needs to stop pretending racism is valuable debate", The Verge, July 29, 2015
- ↑ T.C. Sottek, "Reddit bans several of its most racist communities", The Verge
- ↑ Steve Huffman, "Content Policy Update", /r/announcements, Reddit, "We didn't ban them for being racist. We banned them because we have to spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with them. If we want to improve Reddit, we need more people, but CT's existence and popularity has also made recruiting here more difficult."
- ↑ Misogyny: The Sites, SPLC
- ↑ It's seriously that bad.
- ↑ Pretty much.
- ↑ Enter if you wish.
- ↑ See the redditors of /r/atheism in action.
- ↑ A little something to do with the founder not logging onto /r/atheism in about a year. Gotta keep current, y'know.
- ↑ Finally.
- ↑ "Isn't r/Conspiracy overwhelmingly opposed to 'big government?' And yet they admire the man who led one of the most intrusive governments in history!"
- ↑ http://www.fstdt.com/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=109504 We are not making this up
- ↑ the term "poz" is a corruption of the word "positive" as in "HIV-positive"
- ↑ Why the Internet Thinks I Faked Having Cancer on a Message Board
- ↑ It does sound a little harsh, but we're dealing with a website that verges into boob and poop jokes 5 minutes into any discussion. (Particularly on default subreddits.)
- ↑ In fact, the subreddit uses a automated historical vote tracking system in an effort to maintain transparency in preventing vote brigades
- ↑ A KotakuInAction user who regularly logs chats on the /r/ShitRedditSays IRC room mentioned that they could not find any instances of the unusual slang found in the doxx. And let's be frank here, what kind of utter moron would knowingly attach their name or organization to something like this?
- ↑ Oh, you think we're joking?
- ↑ https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/cs20pnh